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    Features

    Kohrra Season 2 review: Mona Singh, Barun Sobti anchor an emotionally rich but meek mystery

    Swaroop Kodur
    11 Feb 2026 1:40 PM IST

    Co-created by Sudip Sharma, the Netflix original, which traces a new event of crime in interior Punjab, is not as piercing or potent as Season 1 (its central mystery lands softly), but it’s guided by...

    Kohrra Season 2
    Entertainment
    Manoj Naravane
    Features

    As MM Naravane’s memoir sparks interest, his thriller makes it to Amazon bestseller lists

    10 Feb 2026 3:21 PM IST
    Mayilaa, Tamil Film
    Films

    Semmalar Annam on how Mayilaa, her Tamil film, depicts the travails of a rural woman

    10 Feb 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Japanese fiction
    Features

    Healing fiction, café tales: How Japanese literature became a trend among young readers

    8 Feb 2026 6:30 AM IST
    tiger national reserve-cellphone ban

    No selfies with the tigers: Why national parks are banning cellphones on safari

    7 Feb 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Ghooskhor Pandat

    Ghooskhor Pandat: Why row over Neeraj Pandey-backed Manoj Bajpayee cop drama is a non-issue

    6 Feb 2026 12:53 PM IST
    Critics fault the show for glossing over the issues of racism and colonialism which defined the Regency Era, in the show

    How Bridgerton sidelines its Indian characters despite its dark skin representation

    5 Feb 2026 6:41 PM IST
    Dalai Lama’s Grammy-winning spoken-word album ‘Meditations’ is an urgent call for oneness

    Dalai Lama’s Grammy-winning spoken-word album ‘Meditations’ is an urgent call for oneness

    2 Feb 2026 4:25 PM IST
    Grammys 2026

    Grammys 2026: The Dalai Lama wins first award, Kendrick Lamar makes history

    2 Feb 2026 1:30 PM IST
    Parasol, veil, jellyfish: How Naomi Osaka turned Australian Open into a high fashion event

    Parasol, veil, jellyfish: How Naomi Osaka turned Australian Open into a high fashion event

    2 Feb 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Banu Mushtaq

    Deepa Bhasthi interview: ‘AI can never capture silence between words, produce literary work’

    2 Feb 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Melania

    How Amazon’s $75 million documentary on Melania Trump became a colossal disaster

    31 Jan 2026 7:53 PM IST
    Arijit Singh

    Why Arijit Singh has quit playback singing at the peak of his Bollywood career

    30 Jan 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Jimmy Wales

    Wikipedia at 25: Jimmy Wales on AI Hallucination and why he trusts humans over algorithms

    28 Jan 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Sanjay Leela Bhansali

    Why Sanjay Leela Bhansali has been roped in for cinema’s first Republic Day tableau

    Nawaid Anjum
    25 Jan 2026 8:35 PM IST

    As Sanjay Leela Bhansali brings cinema to the Republic Day parade for the first time, the celebration raises harder questions about appropriation of...

    Transparency, fair practices gig economy

    14-hour workday in oppressive conditions: Expert shares dark truths of gig work

    25 Jan 2026 12:53 PM IST
    Satish Gujral

    Satish Gujral on meeting Frida Kahlo, art, illness, Marxism, and a shared language of pain

    25 Jan 2026 6:30 AM IST
    AR Rahman

    Why the backlash against AR Rahman is unfair and an act of cultural illiteracy

    21 Jan 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Legendary Mysore Mylari Dosa Hotel to open in Bengaluru

    Legendary Mysore Mylari Dosa Hotel to open in Bengaluru

    20 Jan 2026 8:59 PM IST
    wellbeing through water

    How big lifestyle brands are tapping the idea of wellbeing through water

    19 Jan 2026 1:40 PM IST
    Buddhist extremism

    The Robe and the Sword review: How Asia's non-violent Buddhist monks became extremists

    18 Jan 2026 6:30 AM IST
    The Dig review: Why Keeladi findings matter to India’s present as much as its past

    The Dig review: Why Keeladi findings matter to India’s present as much as its past

    13 Jan 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Karnakata wooden puppets

    Strings attached: Why Karnataka’s centuries-old wooden puppets still command the stage

    11 Jan 2026 10:20 AM IST
    Madhav Gadgil

    How Madhav Gadgil put people at the heart of Western Ghats’ conservation

    10 Jan 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Madanapalle’s Besant Theosophical College

    How a college in Andhra Pradesh’s Madanapalle became the first to sing Jana Gana Mana

    9 Jan 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Dhiraj Rabha’s installation at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

    Dhiraj Rabha on how his garden of carnivorous plants draws on Assam’s insurgency

    8 Jan 2026 6:38 PM IST
    water crisis

    How India’s water crisis is not just due to climate change, but also governance failure

    8 Jan 2026 9:50 AM IST
    Books of 2026

    2026 reading list: All the books everyone will be talking about this year

    5 Jan 2026 1:23 PM IST
    churches of Mumbai

    Mumbai’s churches, up close: Architecture to notice, art to seek, stories to remember

    31 Dec 2025 12:07 PM IST
    The Federal top stories of 2025

    Politics to economy to education to food, what The Federal offered in 2025

    30 Dec 2025 3:55 PM IST
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